Gary Johnson is still taking the hits after his embarrassing "What's Aleppo?" mistake last week.

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Johnson was being interviewed on MSNBC Thursday morning, when one of the hosts asked the Libertarian presidential candidate a foreign policy question regarding the violence in the Syrian city.

Johnson responded with his own question: What's Aleppo?

Immediately after, the former New Mexico governor took to Twitter, saying "Started my day by setting aside any doubt I'm human." He also issued a statement, saying in part that he "was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict."

KOAT's political analyst Brian Sanderoff said this might hurt Johnson, since the majority of Americans still don't know who he is.

"The last thing Gary Johnson needs are embarrassing moments such as this," Sanderoff told KOAT-TV Sunday. "Any time he has a major faux pas, that would really set back his momentum."

But Sanderoff said things may not be all bad for Johnson because voters might also be paying close attention to how he acted after the mistake.

"I think his respond or apology was genuine and sincere," Sanderoff said.

Sanderoff said voters will have to wait several days for new major polls to come out to see exactly what affect the "Aleppo" mistake has on Johnson's campaign.

His goal all along, has been to get into the presidential debates, alongside Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He'll need to reach 15 percent in five major, national polls to do that.

Johnson has been hovering around 10 percent lately, and the clock is ticking -- the first debate is two weeks away.